AND NAVIGATION. 



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Article S2d. " It is agreed and stipulated 

 by the High Contracting Parties, that the pre- 

 sent Treaty shall be unlimited in point of du- 

 ration, that the obligations and conditions 



Bevan declares himself to be a merchant, resident in this 

 city (Lisbon, I suppose,) and a subject of His Britannic 

 Majesty, and therefore competent to enjoy all the privileges 

 and immunities which have been conceded to British sub- 

 jects, &c. The merchants of that nation may freely trade, 

 contract, buy, and sell in all these kingdoms and lordships, 

 Sec. and where a doubt arises concerning any business with 

 them, this shall be construed rather with a bias in their favour 

 than against them. * British subjects can only be arrested 

 and confined in their own houses, according to their rank in 

 life, or in the castle of St. Jorge ; and these arrests cannot 

 be carried into executions by bailiffs (homems de vara), but 

 only by the alcaide, f They are exempted from the pay- 

 ment of certain duties upon those articles which they can 

 prove to be for the use of their own families. They cannot 

 be obliged to give up their houses or warehouses against 

 their consent. J They cannot be obliged to serve as guar- 

 dians, and they are exempted from certain imposts. They 

 may carry offensive and defensive arms, by day and by night, 

 with or without a light, taking care not to do with them what 

 they ought not to do." 



Then follow the penalties to which those officers will be 

 subjected who do not pay a due regard to these privileges. 



The clerks and servants of Englishmen enjoy the same 

 privileges to the number of six, provided they are not 

 Spaniards. 



* Mats em stu favm do que em <>dio. — What occasiorl is there for this? 

 Impartiality is what is required. 



-f- An officer of a rank somewhat superior. 



+ An officer of government can turn an unprivileged man out of his hous< 

 by placing the letters P. R. upon his door. 



